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Amazon 'SMBhav': Bezos charms sellers as Murthy cuts speech to 5 min

Keynote speaker Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy, who has business relations with Amazon, was clearly upset with the event starting late

Jeff Bezos bets on 'Indian century', gives MSMEs $1-billion push

Commits to exporting $10 billion India-made goods by 2025

Keeping a close watch: CCI warns online retailers against unfair practices

All eyes on Bezos' visit this week as traders up the ante

'Economic terrorists': CAIT lashes out at Amazon and Flipkart, seeks action

CAIT claimed that small retailers have suffered at the hands of Amazon, Flipkart

Flipkart unfazed as Google, WhatsApp plan to enter e-commerce market

Both Google and Facebook-owned WhatsApp are working with small sellers and merchants to help them set up their digital stores

CAIT urges Modi govt to probe FDI policy violations by Amazon, Flipkart

The traders' body has strongly objected to the business model of both the companies

Meet the data geek who builds robust sales models for small shopkeepers

Fynd helps shopkeepers launch their own e-commerce websites and apps with a selling capacity of over 50,000 styles and 50 brands. The product is already being used by 6,500 stores across 350 cities

E-commerce majors Flipkart and Amazon clock bumper sale on Day One

Flipkart saw 2x more sale; for Amazon, it was the biggest-ever in a single day

Traders plan countrywide stir against festive e-commerce discounts

According to traders, they will meet the ministers over the next few days and chart out instances of violations of various rules by the e-commerce firms

Lifestyle International leans on e-commerce to achieve 8-9% revenue growth

Company hopes tie-up with Flipkart and Myntra will boost online share of total sales to 15%, from just 3% share that its own portal commands

Amazon eyes expansion, launches largest delivery station in Tamil Nadu

The delivery stations enable Amazon Logistics to supplement capacity and provide flexibility to its delivery capabilities to support the growing volume of customer orders

How to revive India's economy? Encourage ecommerce, says Amazon executive

Agarwal said Amazon works with some 500,000 sellers, and has created over 200,000 jobs in India since launching its ecommerce operations in 2013

Social commerce start-up Meesho raises $125 million led by Naspers

In June, Meesho raised funding from social media giant Facebook

Product, not brand, is the cornerstone of Snapdeal's comeback strategy

What Snapdeal has done in the past two years, says a company spokesperson, is focus on the 'next 400 million online buyers'

Govt e-commerce platform has more than twice the number of Flipkart sellers

2.1 million orders worth Rs 28,000 crore have been placed on GeM

Shein partly shuts India ops as crackdown against Chinese etailers widens

Shein and Club Factory are accused of dodging import duties by fudging listed prices

Digital firms, traders to discuss e-commerce policy with Piyush Goyal

According to CAIT, e-commerce policy should take within its ambit not only foreign players but also domestic ones

UP Traders Board discusses ecommerce retail policy; to offer suggestions

UP traders have been vociferously demanding that the Centre and UP govt formulate an ecomm and online trade policy to protest small retailers from the "onslaught" of global ecommerce players

Snapdeal, ShopClues support govt's Feb 1 deadline for e-commerce FDI norms

The position taken by these players is in contrast to that of giants like Amazon and Walmart-backed Flipkart

Govt's e-commerce curbs could hit online sales by $46 bn by 2022: PwC

Under the changes, e-commerce firms in India will from February 1 not be able to sell products via companies in which they have an equity interest